Built in 1841 by William Holly, the Golden Pheasant Inn stood on Gates Road in Hackham's original township — opposite Holly's own cottage.By 1873 it had lost its licence. William eventually sold up and returned to England, passing the property to his son Charles. The old inn fell into ruin and was later demolished.

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The winery that stood on Wheatsheaf Road at Morphett Vale had a history that stretched back nearly a century before the buildings came down in 1989. It had begun not as a winery at all but as a London importing house — built by a Scottish vigneron from Magill, that put an emu on its label in 1883.

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Noarlunga's steam flour mill opened in 1843, cost £2,200, and ran day and night. It survived insolvency & an 1883 fire before closing in 1885. Later a brickworks, then workers' flats — now a private home.

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In 1895, Lambert & Rosa Christie established a farm across what is now Christies Beach. The area remained farming land until 1923, when Rosa Christie created the first subdivision .

Better road and rail links south of Adelaide soon brought tourists flocking to the coast. Before long, holiday cottages and shacks were springing up on Witton Bluff and down onto the beach itself.

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